Document Delivery
Document delivery is a service available to all faculty and
staff within the Department of Health Services. It is also available to
Extended Degree students. The HSIC staff will locate, copy or borrow,
and deliver any materials needed for research and teaching. We will make
every effort to track down an item and will always ask permission before
proceeding with any transaction which involves additional fees, such as
interlibrary loan.
To make a request:
- Make your request by email whenever possible.
- Always include a budget number.
- Let us know if this is a RUSH request so that we can give it highest
priority.
Journal Articles
Copyright: Be aware of copyright restrictions. "Fair use" is
defined as one article or up to 10% of a journal issue. A Copyright
Clearance Center fee can be charged for copies made beyond fair use. We will
ask permission to do this if you have requested many articles from one
journal not available in our collection.
Borrowing Books, Reports, Reference Materials, Theses
The HSIC has a small book and reference collection and most items
circulate with special permission from the librarian.
The majority of materials requested will be available from the various UW
campus libraries. For example, theses from the School of Public Health are
available in the HSLIC. We can borrow books for you if you fill out a "proxy
borrowers card" form (available from us).
You are responsible for any fines incurred. We simply pick up and
deliver, or return books for you. We keep a record of these transactions in
our Circulation file. Books fetched by us should be returned to us
so we can clear your records.
Loan Periods
The Health Sciences Libraries and Information Center loan period
is two weeks for non-Reserve items.
The Suzzallo Library has an "indefinite loan" period for
some materials. Each April the borrower will receive a list of items they
have checked out during the year on indefinite loan. These items must be
returned or renewed before the middle of May to avoid fines.
For a detailed explanation see: The
Loan
Code of the University of Washington Libraries.
Renewals
If we check out a book for you with a proxy borrowers card, please let us
know if you want the book renewed and we'll do it for you.
If you have borrowed a book on your own from the UW Libraries, you may
renew it
online.
Interlibrary Loan
- If an item is not available at any of the UW libraries we can make an
ILL request through UW interlibrary loan services.
- ILLs take from a few days to a few weeks and the cost varies. Usually
the turnaround time is speedy.
- Books, reports, theses, may be requested through interlibrary loan and
must be returned promptly so that they can be returned on time to distant
lending institutions.
- If a journal is not received at the University of Washington, we can
request a photocopy of an article from another library (entire journals
almost never circulate).
Information Management
The Health Services Information Center staff can help you locate,
retrieve, organize, and evaluate information from many sources and in many
formats. We can also teach you to use many of the resource tools available
electronically and in print or mention sources of information you may not
have considered.
Reference Questions and Database Searching
Some of our services:
- Verify references for publication
- Help in determining appropriate databases and controlled vocabulary
headings for searching
- Research information sources (including the internet) for the topic
you are investigating
- Locate statistical information
TOCs and Current Awareness
You can view the table of contents of approximately 45
"core"
health services journals
by visiting their websites. (Examples: New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA,
Health Services Research, Medical Care, Hospitals & Health Networks).
We can help you set up a current awareness service, which will send the
table of contents of up to 50 journals of your choice to your email
as they become available. You can also choose key words as subjects to look
for in articles. This service is made possible through our site license with
Ingenta Reveal (formerly CARL Uncover Reveal).
Faculty and graduate students at the UW can receive customized reports
of new library resources that match their interest profile. For more
information see
Zephyr
or talk to your librarian.
Teaching and Consulting
We are always happy to do one-on-one teaching and consulting.
Handy Links to Other UW Libraries
University of Washington Libraries:
UW Health Sciences Libraries and Information Center
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